Cultural politics of hygiene in India, 1890-1940 : contagions of feeling /
"Can there be an affective history of hygiene? Is it possible to read into the narrative of modern hygiene active and animated tropes of emotion, affect, and feeling? New microbes, novel pandemics, and their global movements that have forcefully reinstated the efficacy of hygiene have also rein...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene
- Hygiene, Colonialism, and Affective Histories
- Objects, Affect, and Hygiene
- Methods and Sources
- Outline of Chapters
- Alimentary Anxieties : Affect in Food and Hunger
- Histories of Food and the Body
- Food Adulteration, Embodiment and the Politics of Anxiety
- Famine's Bodies
- Body, Hygiene, and Affective Politics of Gandhi's Swaraj
- Body, Affect, and Gandhi
- Gandhi's Fasts
- Race and Gandhi's Politics of Hygiene
- Medicine as Contagion
- Imagining the Social Body : Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion
- Locating Women's Writings on Care in Early 20th Century India
- Memorable Objects : Childhood, Memory, and Care in Shukhalata Rao's Writings
- Memorable Spaces : Suffering and Education of Care in Priyabala Gupta's Memoir
- Traveling Memories : Wandering and Care in Purnasashi Debi's Autobiography
- Affective Remedies : Advertisements and Cultural Politics of Hygiene
- Enchantments of Empire and Nation
- Advertising, Consumer Culture, and Empire
- Advertisements and Pluralist Medical Marketplace
- Advertising Beauty, Womanhood, and Domesticity
- Contagion of Advertisements.